by Stuart Brabbs | Sep 29, 2020 | General
It’s been a hectic few weeks for the staff at ART as we’ve been heavily involved in scale sampling, electrofishing, crayfish monitoring and worst of all, moving office at a really inconvenient time of the year. This was forced on us by new owners at...
by Stuart Brabbs | Sep 8, 2020 | Conservation
Fishery Management Scotland has just published a new guide to show how to identify farmed salmon. 200908-Aqua-Guidance-for-Anglers Our own video can can be viewed by following this link o the film....
by Stuart Brabbs | Sep 5, 2020 | Conservation
This link below takes you to a short video showing key things to look for when you catch a fish and how to identify if its a Farmed Salmon. With 48,000 fish escaping from Carradale 3 weeks ago, they are beginning to turn up in our rivers and they pose a huge threat to...
by Stuart Brabbs | Aug 31, 2020 | Conservation, General
Here’s a link to the latest guidance produced by collaboration with stakeholders such as ART, Fisheries Trusts and District Salmon Fishery Boards, FHI and MSS and published by Fishery management Scotland....
by Stuart Brabbs | Aug 28, 2020 | Invasives
I’ve spent this evening getting Crayfish traps ready for use. It’s incredible that the most widely used traps on the market don’t catch the tiny juvenile crayfish as their mesh size is too big. Scientific studies elsewhere have shown a significant...
by Stuart Brabbs | Aug 28, 2020 | Conservation, General
A year or two ago, a simple electric scare fence was erected on the Glenstang Burn near Stair. This prevented cattle accessing the water margin in the bottom half of a field but open grazing remained on the upper section where erosion continued to occurred around...